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The transfer pressure in area C and the 1948 borders Negev intensifies. The colonialist settlers increase their terror, backed by the Israeli state forces. The increased popular struggle intensifies too and rightist calls for harsher repression are becoming louder. Not all those involved with the grassroots popular struggles are happy with the joint struggle together with Israelis, preferring to do without the relative immunity from harsher repression that we provide, and without our contribution for world public opinion. The ferment in the region has already decided that things will not be the same, but only popular struggle and international pressure will channel the changes to the better. [http://www.anarkismo.net/article/25488]

The transfer pressure in area C and the 1948 borders Negev intensifies. The colonialist settlers increase their terror, backed by the Israeli state forces. The increased popular struggle intensifies too and rightist calls for harsher repression are becoming louder. Not all those involved with the grassroots popular struggles are happy with the joint struggle together with Israelis, preferring to do without the relative immunity from harsher repression that we provide, and without our contribution for world public opinion. The ferment in the region has already decided that things will not be the same, but only popular struggle and international pressure will channel the changes to the better. [http://www.anarkismo.net/article/25488]

Κείμενο αλληλεγγύης για τη δίωξη του ολικού αρνητή στράτευσης Δημήτρη Νιώτη (δίκη στις 21/05, στρατοδικείο Ιωαννίνων), από την Πρωτοβουλία για την Ολική Άρνηση Στράτευσης. Συγκέντρωση αλληλεγγύης, 21/05, 9πμ, στο στρατοδικείο.

Campaigners against the property tax have condemned government “spin and intimidation aimed at trying to force people to pay the property tax” and said that it is clear that huge numbers of people are prepared to resist the threats and refuse to pay the tax.

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 A discussion & planning session for everyone who thinks that any attempt by the government to implement pay cuts on public service workers after the Croke Park vote should be met by effective strikes & civil disobedience.

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Event date and time:  Wed, 2013-05-08 19:30 - 21:00

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If you are not familiar with the infamous Come Here to Me blog then you should really have a look at it or the book and join thousands of other readers finding out about social history in Dublin. There are over 2,000 stories on the site addressing many different facets of everyday life and culture in Dublin from forgotten lanes, to overlooked monuments through to stories about the Gards, the eating habits of Dubs, and clubbing in the 50's and everything in between. The site has won a number of awards over the years and two of the authors spoke at the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair to a crowd of academics, librarians, archivists and many interested members of the general public.

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El Domingo 1ero de Mayo de 2005 Nicolás David Neira Álvarez (11 de octubre 1989-6 de mayo de 2005), joven libertario de 15 años, estudiante de noveno grado del Liceo Hermano Miguel de la Salle, fue asesinado durante las jornadas de movilización obrera y popular del Día Internacional de los Trabajadores y Trabajadoras. Ese día, a las 1:30 de la tarde, el bloque de personas y organizaciones con las que se movilizaba Nicolás, fue atacado por la Policía en la carrera 7ª entre las Calles 16 y 19 del centro de la ciudad. Las personas, corrieron presas del miedo, en medio de gases lacrimógenos, granadas aturdidoras y la violencia policial que les arrojaba con furia el Escuadrón Móvil Anti Disturbios ESMAD.

Nico no pudo correr tanto y cayó al piso asfixiado por los gases, por lo que fue alcanzado por un grupo de agentes del ESMAD, quienes en un número superior a 8, lo patearon y golpearon boca abajo, sádicamente en medio de su más completa indefensión. Tendido en el piso, con sus ojos impregnados de esperanza mirando al cielo, el joven estudiante fue rodeado por agentes del ESMAD, mientras mucha gente se solidarizaba, denunciando el hecho y pidiendo ayuda médica para el muchacho. Finalmente, varias personas solidarias consiguieron llevar a Nico a un hospital, el CAMI del barrio la Perseverancia en el que estuvo toda la tarde sin tratamiento y luego en la madrugada, a la Clínica Jorge Piñero Corpas. Era sin embargo muy tarde. En el parte médico se consigno que Nico presentaba un trauma craneoencefálico severo, una fractura occipital, un enema cerebral y se encontraba en estado de coma. Finalmente el viernes 6 de mayo hacia las 3 de la tarde, el joven se fue de este mundo en medio del dolor de familiares, amigos y amigas.

Coincidiendo con el Primero de Mayo ha salido a la luz una nueva edición de "Solidaridad", periódico al servicio de las luchas populares.

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Information about the arrest of five anarchists on Tuesday noon, April 30th, the criminal proceedings against them, and the hunger/thirst strike of comrade Dimitris Hadjivasiliadis.

On Tuesday, April 30th, at around 4pm, anarchists Yannis Naxakis and Grigoris Sarafoudis were arrested on Dekeleias avenue in the district of Nea Filadelfeia, as they were coming out of a cafeteria.

At the same time, a large police force stormed the café and caught the anarchist fugitives Argyris Ntalios —who tried to break out of the kettle— and Fivos Harisis-Poulos. Both comrades had arrest warrants pending against them since mid-February 2013 (after the double robbery in Velventos–Kozani and the incarceration of anarchists Andreas-Dimitris Bourzoukos, Dimitris Politis, Nikos Romanos and Yannis Michailidis).

Anarchist Dimitris Hadjivasiliadis was also arrested inside the same cafeteria in Nea Filadelfeia.

All five were transferred to the anti-terrorism service on the 12th floor of the Athens police headquarters. The two comrades that were caught out on the street, as well as the two that were wanted by the authorities encountered the violence of statist dogs in the anti-terrorist office. The fifth comrade was forced to stand for twelve hours handcuffed tightly behind his back —what officially is considered torture— and when he was taken into a cell (the white cells of the 12th floor), he remained handcuffed for several hours.

The same evening, the Greek security force put out a report that accused all of them of resisting arrest and giving false testimony —because the five anarchists refused to give fingerprints, profiles or DNA samples, which were ultimately taken by force. In addition, Naxakis, Sarafoudis and Hadjivasiliadis were charged with harbouring fugitives.

On Wednesday noon, May 1st, the arrestees were all transferred to Evelpidon courts, where the media crows were lurking, and were met with the comrades’ hostility. The comrades stood before prosecutor and interrogator without any formal indictment and (for some) without being allowed to meet with a defense lawyer in advance that would also be present in the hearing, what perhaps occurred for the first time in the history of similar cases. The judges applied their usual tactic to postpone the preliminary hearing for two days regardless of the arrestees’ wishes. Ntalios, Harisis, Naxakis and Sarafoudis refused to make any statement. On the other hand, Hadjivasiliadis demanded that he be heard immediately with the presence of a defense lawyer. His demand was dismissed, so the comrade stated that he has denied food and water already from the moment of his arrest, and he goes on hunger/thirst strike for as long as he be locked up in the white cells of the antiterrorism torturers. Lastly, he held the judges responsible for his prolonged custody on the 12th floor of the Athens police headquarters, where the cops were attempting only to ‘manufacture’ an accusatory brief against the three anarchists for whom no warrants were outstanding in order to ask for their pretrial incarceration.

On Wednesday evening, preventive detention warrants were executed against the two ex-fugitives, and Fivos Harisis and Argyris Ntalios were transferred to Koridallos prison.

On Thursday, May 2nd, Ntalios, Harisis, Naxakis and Sarafoudis were charged in past robbery cases on the basis of ‘findings’ from DNA samples that were forcibly taken by them. Additionally, an appellate judge who handles such cases issued preventive detention warrants against Yannis Naxakis and Grigoris Sarafoudis. An indictment was presented to all five arrested in Nea Filadelfeia, including the accusation of ‘membership into a criminal organization with a view to committing robbery,’ in accordance with the Greek antiterrorist law, without exhibiting any direct evidence of premeditation or even intent, other than some orange juices served on the cafeteria table…

Meanwhile, on Thursday, the cops staged a psychological war on Hadjivasiliadis to make him stop the strike. They brought water bottles inside the cell, repeatedly ‘offered’ him food and water, and threatened him that he would stay there for many more days. Hadjivasiliadis and his lawyer insisted on his right to medical examination. A doctor came in at night, and assured that there was no immediate danger to him at this stage but his condition could deteriorate any moment. The doctor also told the human-guards to let the transom window of the cell’s door open, to help the striker breath more efficiently.

On Friday morning, May 3rd, the five anarchists were brought to Evelpidon courts once again, where only a few comrades and relatives were gathered in solidarity. Four of the accused insisted upon their refusal to make any statement. Then Ntalios and Harisis read a text in solidarity to striker Hadjivasiliadis, declaring that he is being held without any substantial evidence whatsoever against him. The judges had no basis to press criminal organization charges against the arrestees and set bail conditions instead for all five of them.

Nevertheless, Dimitris Hadjivasiliadis was the only one to be released, and thus stopped his three-day hunger and thirst strike.

Argyris Ntalios and Fivos Harisis were taken back to Koridallos. The Solidarity Fund for imprisoned and persecuted fighters (Greece) released their prison address:

Fivos Harisis-Poulos – Argyris Ntalios
Dikastiki Filaki Koridallou, A Pteryga, 18110 Koridallos, Athens, Greece

In the meantime, Yannis Naxakis and Grigoris Sarafoudis were still held as suspects in bank robbery case, awaiting further proceeding in the city of Larissa. According to mainstream media, these two anarchists were brought before an interrogator on Saturday, May 4th. They are said to be remanded and moved to Koridallos prison.

More updates as they come.

SOLIDARITY WITH ALL PRISONERS IN STRUGGLE

 

Fabián Araneda, vicepresidente de la FECH, es un dirigente universitario muy especial, a quien sus compañeros de la coordinadora Luchar suelen llamarlo “el primer trabajador”. Él vive en Pedro Aguirre Cerda, es fanático de Colo Colo y de la serie Spartacus, de hecho en twitter se hace llamar @elperrotracio por su evidente parecido con este personaje histórico, que al igual que el gladiador que organizó un ejercito de esclavos rebeldes en contra Roma, siendo considerando posteriormente como el primer revolucionario de origen popular, Fabián es de los pocos, o quizás el único dirigente estudiantil del último tiempo, que trabaja por necesidad y no por un anhelo de autonomía.

También es importante mencionar que es un compañero de origen popular y de ahí su cercana relación con el contexto social, el cual viene principalmente ligado a su experiencia personal. Por eso, sabe cómo piensa la mayoría de los jóvenes endeudados y esforzados, porque él también es uno de ellos. Además, esta cercanía y origen modesto se ve reflejado en lo sindical, debido a que como mencionábamos anteriormente, el compañero es trabajador, lo que le permite establecer un vínculo directo con el mundo sindical. Por esto, La Batalla conversó con Fabián sobre los trabajadores, su vida y el movimiento estudiantil, entrevista que te invitamos a leer a continuación.

Renan deu a dica, apontando o caminho através da lógica de um cardeal do Congresso acostumado a legislar em causa própria e de seus pares.